Data sources & credits

Listings in FreeLawyerAdvice.ca are compiled from the sources below. Each is named with the dataset it came from, the licence it is used under, and the credit that licence requires. Where a licence makes attribution a condition of use, that credit is reproduced here word for word.

• Google Places — audited paid corpus (dated tags only)

  Google Places API business records, legal vertical, April 2026 audited pull

  Licence:

  Google Maps Platform Terms of Service (credentialed paid API)

  Required credit:

  Google Maps

  Last updated from source:

  2026-04-17

  Verbatim: "When displaying Places API data without a Google Map, you must include the Google logo, adhering to the provided style guidelines and attribution requirements." Google specifies the Google Maps logo, or the TEXT "Google Maps" where space is constrained. There is no "Powered by Google" string mandated for this case. Scope is the 51 dated audited tags ONLY — the bare `google_places` tag is a separate, unresearched tripwire authority.

• legacy_pre_path_y (unknown provenance)

  Pre-PathY legacy rows — originating authority not recorded at load time

  Licence:

  No licence asserted — provenance not recorded

  Credited as (provenance not recorded):

  Compiled from publicly available listings (pre-2026 legacy data)

  Last updated from source:

  2026-05-05

  IRRECOVERABLE, NOT UNRESEARCHED. The originating authority was never recorded at load time, so no licence can be asserted and no credit can honestly be given. This is not closable by research; it closes by re-deriving provenance where a source identifier survives on the row, or by de-serving the remainder. In campgroundsnearme alone this is 2,840 SERVED rows.

• Self-serve (user submitted)

  Rows submitted by the business owner through /list-your-business

  Licence:

  Submitted by the listing owner under the site’s own Terms

  Last updated from source:

  2026-07-14

  Not an external authority. The row is contributed by the business itself through /list-your-business; the governing document is our own Terms. No third-party credit is owed.

• US DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) — recognized organizations & accredited representatives roster

  US DOJ EOIR recognized organizations and accredited representatives roster

  Licence:

  US federal public domain (DOJ legal policies)

  Last updated from source:

  2026-05-13

  Verbatim: "Unless otherwise indicated, information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain and may be copied and distributed without permission." Credit ask verbatim: "Citation of the Department of Justice as source of the information is appreciated, as appropriate." — 'appreciated', therefore not required and no line is owed. This CONFIRMS the 17 U.S.C. §105 assumption the tag map recorded for eoir_2026_05_13 with the licence page unread; the page has now been read.

• US law firms (derived from bar rosters, independently corroborated)

  US law firms derived from state bar rosters and independently corroborated, August 2026

  Licence:

  Independently originated (derived practice/entity grain)

  Last updated from source:

  2026-08-24

  Not an external dataset. The held bar roster supplies only a discovery pointer (a firm trade name); every published field is taken independently from the firm’s own public website and must corroborate on name AND location. No roster field is republished, so no roster credit is owed. The UPSTREAM bar rosters remain separately unresearched — see the unmapped `*_bar_*` tags.

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